Wait I just thought of something. I remember that you can edit the valve.rc and add stuff in there and make it use that as the command line...at least for CSS/TF2.
-- Cc2iscooL Head Admin/Owner http://www.cc2iscool.com On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Cc2iscooL <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you try putting it in the autoexec.cfg? > > -- > Cc2iscooL > Head Admin/Owner > http://www.cc2iscool.com > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know why the autoupdate option would have anything to do with the >> value of maxplayers. I'm pretty sure it's separate. >> >> I tried reproducing this behavior on our server and I was not able to do >> it. I have "+maxplayers 24" in the startup command line. I added >> "maxplayers 16" to the server.cfg file and restarted the server, but it >> still had 24 player slots. I tried "exec server.cfg" in the console but >> maxplayers still remained 24. I even tried all of this again using >> "-maxplayers" instead of "+maxplayers" in the startup options, but still >> nothing. Any maxplayers value I put in the server.cfg file has no effect as >> long as maxplayers is specified on the command line when the server is >> started. My server also has the autoupdate option set. >> >> What I *was* able to do was crank up the number of max visible players. I >> set "+maxplayers 16" on the startup line and put "sv_maxvisibleplayers 24" >> in the server.cfg file. After the server started, both "maxplayers" and >> "status" in the console say 16, but an A2S_INFO query says there are 24 >> player slots. Those extra 8 slots can't really be used, but they show up in >> the query. Could this be what he is doing? >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Arnaud DUMAS de RAULY <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 5:16 pm >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Changing Number of Slots fix >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list < >> [email protected]> >> >> > Thanks all for your suggestions, but when a customer restarts >> > the >> > server from his panel, the command line executes automatically >> > the >> > right slot count. Which is why I don't understand how he does it >> > and >> > makes me wonder if it has something to do with the autoupdate >> > commande >> > line. >> > >> > Le 4 août 09 à 21:15, Marcel a écrit : >> > >> > > Write a small cron script that checks the slots and restarts >> > the >> > > server >> > > with if the slotcount is wrong. And when you're doing this, >> > you can >> > > also >> > > check if your customer has set a password (if it's a private >> > server).> >> > > I think the customer will complain if his server restarts >> > every 5 >> > > mins ;) >> > > >> > > >> > > Marcel >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the >> > list >> > > archives, please visit: >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> > archives, please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
